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Immunotherapy could extend survival for patients with aggressive glioblastoma brain cancer

Laurie McGinley | 
Glioblastoma — the aggressive brain cancer that killed Sen. John McCain, Sen. Ted Kennedy and Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden ...
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Viewpoint: Gene drive technology could eliminate malaria. But we must get it right, first

Henry Greely | 
People don’t give people malaria: The 460 species of mosquitoes in the genus Anopheles do, and researchers are taking aim at them ...
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Genes or environment? Twins study offers ‘unsatisfying answer’ when it comes to disease

Carolyn Johnson | 
It’s the next chapter in the nature-nurture debate: To keep people healthy, is it better to focus on people’s Zip ...
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Can gene therapy offer a cure for sickle-cell disease?

Carolyn Johnson | 
[I]n November, six months after [21-year-old Manny] Johnson became the first patient to receive an experimental therapy aimed at curing ...
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Boost for precision medicine? FDA approves drug targeting different cancers with shared mutation

Laurie McGinley | 
The Food and Drug Administration on [November 26] approved a drug for a wide range of cancers based on a ...
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Viewpoint: Why ancestry tests shouldn’t be ‘read as a certainty’

Debra Bruno | 
Yes, I’m the kind of person who would take a DNA test with Ancestry and then, curious about whether I’d ...
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Ancient spearheads raise new questions about North America’s first inhabitants

Sarah Kaplan | 
[A]rchaeologists have uncovered evidence of a human settlement stretching back as far as 15,500 years: hammer stones and broken knives, ...
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Calls for a halt to heart stem cell trial based on controversial research

Carolyn Johnson | 
Days after Harvard Medical School said it found extensive falsified or fabricated data from the laboratory of a prominent heart researcher, ...
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‘Hugely influential’ papers on cardiac stem cells declared ‘fraudulent’ by Harvard

Carolyn Johnson | 
An internal investigation by Harvard Medical School has determined that 31 scientific publications from the laboratory of a high-profile cardiologist ...
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Pentagon DARPA program targeting crop losses could turn insects into ‘easily weaponized’ biological army, critics claim

Joel Achenbach | 
The Pentagon is studying whether insects can be enlisted to combat crop loss during agricultural emergencies. The bugs would carry ...
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Can’t remember what happened last night? How alcohol creates blackouts

Carolyn Johnson, Joel Achenbach | 
The allegations of sexual assault against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh have a common element of binge drinking, and highlight the ...
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Pioneering cancer immunotherapy researchers awarded Nobel Prize in medicine

Laurie McGinley, Lenny Bernstein | 
The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday [Oct. 1, 2018] to cancer researchers James P. Allison and ...
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Fighting the next pandemic with injection-free ‘vaccine patches’

Carolyn Johnson | 
When the next dead­ly pan­dem­ic flu hits, the first chal­lenge will be to de­vel­op a vac­cine. But loom­ing behind that ob­sta­cle is ...
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Human eggs from blood cells? New technique could ‘transform reproduction’

Carolyn Johnson | 
Scientists in Japan made progress recently in the quest to combat infertility, creating the precursor to a human egg cell in a ...
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1 in 10 children diagnosed with ADHD: Why so many?

Rachel Buth | 
The number of children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyper­activity disorder (ADHD) has reached more than 10 percent, a significant increase during the past 20 ...
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Are some people just ‘jerks’? New study identifies four major personality types

Ben Guarino | 
Personality type tests are hugely popular, though if you ask working psychologists, they’ll tell you the results are little better ...
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Why some researchers have urged caution with CRISPR gene editing

Jianhua Luo | 
Despite all the excitement surrounding CRISPR editing, researchers have urged caution about moving too fast. Two recent studies have raised ...
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Social science ‘reproducibility crisis’: Only 13 of 21 prestigious studies replicable

Joel Achenbach | 
The “reproducibility crisis” in [social] science is erupting again. A research project attempted to replicate 21 social science experiments published between 2010 and ...
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Cooperation in a time of chaos: Ancient Kenyan burial ground shows evidence of ‘social unity’

Sarah Kaplan | 
For millions of years, the Turkana Basin in northern Kenya has been a cradle of humanity. … Around 5,000 years ago, the ...
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Robot peer pressure and why we may need to fear ‘artificial stupidity’

Carolyn Johnson | 
When the robot revolution arrives, we all know the plot: Smarter machines will supersede human intelligence and outwit us, enslave ...
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‘Very reassuring’: Vaccinating pregnant women does not increase risk of autism in children

Lindsey Bever | 
New research has shown that a common childhood vaccination given to pregnant women does not put their children at any increased ...
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Tamed foxes could help unravel complex genetics behind social behavior

Carolyn Johnson | 
[D]omestication, based purely on behavioral traits, can result in other changes — like curlier tails and changes to fur color ...
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Reasons to be wary of the ‘untamed wilderness’ of dog DNA tests

Kim Kavin | 
The claims that dog DNA-testing companies make can seem all but definitive: One quick cheek swab can not only tell ...
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Fighting cancer with help from the body’s internal clock

Elie Dolgin | 
Chi Van Dang generally declines to discuss the science that made him famous. ... Instead of doing so, Dang [a ...
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Elephants rarely get cancer. Can humans borrow their genetic strategies?

David Kohn | 
Elephants have 100 times as many cells as humans. But they seldom get cancer. This is surprising, because cancer is ...
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Privacy pledge: Consumer genetic-testing firms agree to new rules

Drew Harwell, Tony Romm | 
Ancestry, 23andMe and other popular companies that offer genetic testing pledged on Tuesday [July 31] to be upfront when they ...
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Transgender men experience masculinity differently

Tara Bahrampour | 
We spoke with ... men who transitioned as adults to the bodies in which they feel more comfortable. ... [T]heir ...
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